Another big weekend in sport with Rugby League Tests occurring, while WBBL, NBL and A-League continued full steam ahead into Summer. But as always at this time of the year, the big dog in the yard was the horse racing.

It was another big sporting weekend with the World Cup Nines, Rugby World Cup Finals, opening round of the WBBL, and the ongoing seasons of the A-League and NBL.

The Netball Constellation Cup and the Rugby Union World Cup continued. But the weekend was dominated by the Supercars at Bathurst.

The 2019 NRL Season rated 88.201 million viewers at an average viewership of 459,000 per game, with an almost even split between free to air viewers on Nine and GEM, as well as Fox League.

At a time when many proclaimed that broadcast television was dying or dead, the Australian Football League held a steady ship

With the Ashes now complete, AFL and NRL ratings returned to their customary final's levels, while no football on Sunday helped the Formula 1 audience to one of its highest ratings of the year.

It was another big sporting weekend with the first week of the AFL finals, an Ashes deciding test, the last round of the NRL home and away season, a Super Netball preliminary final, plus the Italian Grand Prix.

There is no coincidence that the highest rating FTA and Fox games of the football codes were on Sunday afternoon.